Saturday, March 27, 2010

2.01 Fisher King Part 2 – Morgan chastising Reid for not letting them know that the Fisher King had a bomb, and Reid saying “I told you to go downstairs”. Morgan replies, “You didn’t say bomb.”

2.02 P911 – While looking for evidence in a suspected pedophile’s office at the school where he is the principal, Elle and Reid discover a locked drawer. Elle picks the lock. Reid: “Did they teach you that in FBI school?” Elle: “No, they taught me that in Brooklyn.”

2.04 Psychopathology - Hotch asked Garcia about her Digital Prospective Analysis Rendering. Garcia: Honey, if he opens his mouth, I’ll give you the length of his teeth. Hotch: Just keep it clean and don’t call me honey.

2.05 Aftermath – Gideon is in his hotel room when the COTW stops by to work on the case. She sees that he has put the hotel bathrobe in his suitcase and she says, “You’re stealing a robe” and Gideon says, “It’s complimentary”

2.06 The Boogeyman – The tall tale JJ tells Morgan and Reid. JJ tries to explain to Morgan and Reid why she is afraid of the woods by telling them a scary story about a murder that took place while she was a camp counsellor one summer. Totally drawing the guys in, Morgan asks if she’s serious to which she replies, “No!” making the guys laugh and jokingly threaten payback.

2.07 North Mammon – There is a great plane scene at the end of this episode between Hotch and JJ. Hotch is talking to JJ about becoming a profiler and JJ explains to him why she doesn’t want to, that she loves the job she has. JJ then starts to review the pending cases to choose where the team will be needed next. Hotch “Hey, I thought we picked the cases.” JJ “Sure you do.”

2.08 Empty Planet – On the plane ride home, JJ and Reid are playing gin and joking with each other. JJ beats Reid much to his surprise. He thinks she might be cheating and checks the cards. JJ: “It’s fun beating a genius.” Reid: “Genius Dr. Reid let you win.”

Friday, March 26, 2010

We finish up our discussion of favorite light and/or funny moments from Season 1 with episodes 17-22.

Have we missed any of your favorite scenes from Season 1? Tell us in the comments section below. This is a round table discussion open to all and we look forward to hearing from you.

1.17 A Real Rain - The dinner scene from A Real Rain is wonderful. Who will ever forget Reid struggling with chopsticks? JJ tries to help him with the rubber band trick but in the end he is only saved by a fork.

1.18 Somebody’s Watching – Lila is a beautiful actress that is being stalked. Reid goes with her to her home. Lila decides to take a swim much to Reid’s chagrin. She finally agrees to get out of the pool and asks Reid to give her a hand. Instead of getting out, she pulls Reid in…armed and fully clothed.

1.19 Machismo – Hotch is in the doghouse with Haley because, in the middle of his birthday celebration, he is called to the office and has to leave on a case. JJ: “At least you get to spend your birthday weekend in Mexico.” Hotch: “Yeah, what's 'doghouse' in Spanish?” Reid: “La ca-sa del pair-o” Elle: “La casita del perro.” Reid: “That's what I said” Elle: “Face it chico, you are only a genius in English”

1.20 Charm & Harm – Morgan thinks Elle is acting strange and suspects she has a boyfriend. Elle tries to deflect the question. Morgan: “Why are you acting so weird?” Elle: “We're sitting with a guy who knows that there are 800 kernels of corn on the average cob...” Reid: “... Arranged in 16 separate rows.” Elle: “And you're calling me weird?”

1.21 Secrets and Lies - Garcia and her fascination with England’s Royal Family. Garcia wants to use her newfound CIA access to find out if Princess Diana’s death was really an accident and to get Prince William’s phone number, which prompts JJ to call her a “crazy person”.

1.22 The Fisher King Part 1 – You have the love all the personal insight that we are given to our team in this episode. Elle & Morgan go to Jamaica, Reid visits his mom, Gideon happy and relaxed as he kicks back with a mystery woman at his cabin in the woods, Smiling Hotch and his pirate hat. Lots of light-hearted fun moments…until it all goes horribly wrong.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

We continue with the second installment of CMRT's favorite light and/or funny moments from Season 1 with episodes 9 thru 16. Please feel free to comment on what your favorite moments are from these episodes.

1.09 Derailed – After the UNSUB has been subdued, Elle jokingly calls Gideon dad. Gideon: “Elle?” Elle: “Yeah?” Gideon: “Don’t ever all me dad again.” Elle then turns to Reid after Gideon has walked away and says, “How do you think he’d feel about mom?” Reid replies, “Let me know when you’re going to do that so I can, uh, run.”

1.10 The Popular Kids – Reid goes off on a tangent about candles in front of Gideon, JJ, and the local sheriff. JJ: “Candle wax?” Reid: “Candles are used in rituals.” Gideon: “Also used on birthday cakes.” Reid: “Actually they originally used to protect the birthday celebrant from demons for the coming year.” Reid chuckles then continues: “As a matter of fact, down to the 4th century Christianity rejected the birthday celebration as a pagan ritual.” Sheriff: “What kind of doctor are you?”

1.11 Blood Hungry – Gideon hurts his leg in a skydiving accident prompting his need to stay at Quantico and work the case with Garcia…mostly from her office. Hotch asks her via videoconference “How is it having Gideon around?” Garcia replies, “You can have him back whenever you’d like.”

1.12 What Fresh Hell? – The jet scene after the case. Reid is kicking everyone’s butt at poker. Is he cheating? Who knows for sure? Gideon asks Hotch if Hotch sent Garcia flowers and signed his name to the card and Hotch says yes because people need to know that they’re important. Gideon tells them that he already sent her an MP3 player as a thank you gift and worries that Garcia will think he’s sweet on her since she got two gifts.

1.13 Poison – Gideon visits the Mr Fisher in the hospital mental ward after Mr Fisher attacked his son with a tire iron after being poisoned with LSD. Gideon: “Mr. Fisher?” Fisher: “Shrink or cop?” Gideon: “Well, I’m an FBI profiler, so I guess I’m a little of each.”

1.14 Riding the Lightning – On the eve of his death, death-row inmate Jacob Dawes agrees to meet with the BAU. Hotch interviews him hoping to find out if there are any other victims out there. Jacob is smoking a cigarette when Hotch walks into the interview room. Jacob: "Oh I know, I know, one day these are going to kill me." Hotch just stares at him, not giving in to Jacob’s game. Jacob: "Come on, Hotch, that's funny."

1.15 Unfinished Business - Hotch, Morgan, Elle, and Reid discussing “retired” FBI profiler Max Ryan. Morgan: “I heard he was forced into early retirement.” Hotch: “No, he chose to retire” Reid: “He’s written a new book on the Keystone Killer case.” Hotch: “He moved to Philadelphia to be closer to the crime scenes.” Elle: “That’s retirement?” Morgan: “Hmm, BAU style.”

1.16 The Tribe - Hotch to John Blackwolf "You sound like a fortune cookie"

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A current Round Table discussion revolved around the lighter moments that we are treated to in every episode of Criminal Minds. Sometimes they are funny like the zippy one-liners often provided by Garcia or Prentiss. Others times they are the personal glimpses into their lives that cause us to go "awww". Some episodes like "100" you struggle to find even one so-called lighter moment but in other episodes like "Damaged" there are 3 or 4 so you struggle to decide which scene should be represented in this list.

The members of CMRT have gathered some of their personal favorites and have decided to list them starting with the first eight episodes of Season 1. We will continue to post until we reach our favorite light and/or funny moment from our last episode, Solitary Man. We hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoyed putting them together. It really was a fun discussion.

1.01 Extreme Aggressor - After Garcia tells Morgan she can't help him break through the UNSUB's password defense program. Morgan: "I thought I was calling the office of 'Supreme Genius'" Garcia: "Well, gorgeous, you've been rerouted to the office of too freakin bad."

1.02 Compulsion - When they arrive at the college, Gideon tells the team no badges, that he doesn't want the UNSUB to know that he got the FBI's attention. Gideon: "Try not to look official." He looks at his no-nonsense, all business team and says, "Try to look less official."

1.03 Won't Get Fooled Again - Hotch is talking to Elle and JJ about collecting coins as a child. Hotch: "I spent a good chunk of my childhood searching for a 1944 penny worth thousands." He pauses, looks at Elle and continues "Yes, I was a bit of a nerd. Is that so surprising?" Elle replies, "Not to me."

1.04 Plain Sight - Reid's birthday and the trick candles (in the picture you can see what Reid was hoping was his birthday present).

1.05 Broken Mirror - Morgan asks Reid about taking JJ to the Redskins game and they start to talk about women, specifically fellow agents. Reid: "There is no code of conduct that says agents can't socialize." To which Morgan replies, "Yeah, well see, my code of survival says never mess with a woman that carries a gun."

"The Performer" - The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star, on a rebroadcast of CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, March 24 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Rossdale plays a Goth performer who has become lost in the frightening alter-ego that he portrays on stage - an alter-ego the BAU team suspects may be a brutal serial killer. (Originally broadcast 11/11/09)

We rarely post the DVR numbers here but we thought it would be interesting to know that Criminal Minds does good with DVR. Criminal Minds was number 11 and did increase its 18-49 viewership by a 0.9 rating point.

"Rite of Passage" - The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S., on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, April 14 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Criminal Minds Round Table. When we were positing names for this blog, and Sir Bedivere suggested Criminal Minds Round Table, we knew immediately that was the perfect name for our blog.

It fit in so many ways.

Many fans, and Ed Bernero (Criminal Minds' former Showrunner and Executive Producer) himself, compare the show and its characters to The Arthurian Legend and the Knights of the Round Table. Mr. Bernero even went so far as to say that he knew that the stories had to be “Arthurian” to appeal to the most people. The team meets to brief cases at a round table, and there are many parallels between our BAU team and the Knights and other Arthurian characters.

In addition, a Round Table discussion is what we want to have here about any and all topics Criminal Minds-related. In a Round Table discussion, each participant has equal status and equal time to present views. And finally, since this is going to be a group effort amongst a group of Criminal Minds fans, we are going to take turns around the table, with each of us posting about the show, our favorite characters and our favorite actors on the show.